State Department Issues Travel Advisory To Mexico Due To Risk Of Kidnapping

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The U.S. State Department issued a level two travel advisory warning people against traveling to five states in Mexico due to a heightened risk of becoming a victim of kidnapping and other crimes. The advisory states that travelers should completely avoid visiting Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas while telling Americans to reconsider traveling to 11 other states in the country

The State Department explained that the U.S. government is limited in its ability to provide emergency services in many parts of Mexico and that the danger is even more pronounced for government employees, who are restricted from traveling between cities after dark and are not allowed to drive across the interior of the country. 

"U.S. government employees may not travel between cities after dark, may not hail taxis on the street, and must rely on dispatched vehicles, including from app-based services like Uber or from regulated taxi stands. U.S. government employees may not drive from the U.S.-Mexico border to or from the interior parts of Mexico, with the exception of daytime travel within Baja California, between Nogales and Hermosillo on Mexican Federal Highway 15D, and between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey on Highway 85D."

The advisory comes over a month after nine American citizens, including six children, were massacred in an ambush on a remote Mexican highway. The victims were all members of the Lebaron family and were part of a fundamentalist sect of the Mormon Church. Officials are continuing to investigate the brutal assault and believe it was a case of mistaken identity.

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